Talent Acquisition Sourcer

Pay Range: $35- $40/hr. The pay rate may differ depending on your skills, education, experience, and other qualifications.

Featured Benefits:

• Medical Insurance in compliance with the ACA.
• 401(k).
• Sick leave in compliance with applicable state, federal, and local laws.

TELECOMMUTE: remote but location must be Melbourne or Orlando, with in-office presence required in Melbourne, FL for hiring events and meetings (approximately 4 times a year)

WORK SHIFT: EST core hours 8 AM – 5 PM

Roles and Responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

• Providing sourcing support for a variety of engineering and technical business management and functional areas, to include: sourcing, screening, and managing candidate relationships with recruiters.
• Managing competing priorities, remaining highly flexible in an ever-changing environment while consistently anticipating and delivering exceptional talent acquisition solutions to recruiters.
• Sourcing and recruiting qualified talent while maintaining excellent customer service with hiring managers, candidates, and other stakeholders.
• Working closely with client-facing recruiters and hiring managers to understand the hiring needs and building a targeted sourcing plan.
• Supporting events-based sourcing, focused invitational events, and targeted career fairs.
• Attracting cleared talent to the company and have a knowledge base of security clearances.
• Ensuring data integrity of the candidate management database. 

Strategic Talent Acquisition:

• Applying a business mindset to the talent acquisition function.
• Researching market conditions and industry trends as it relates to our competitors to assist in decision-making and marketing positions.
• Making connections between all talent management phases (acquisition, development, retention, culture).
• Leveraging data and market intelligence to develop and execute staffing strategies.

 Sourcing:

• Utilizing professional networks to source candidates for active requisitions
• Sourcing candidates from a variety of sources, with a strong emphasis on LinkedIn, HireEZ, ClearanceJobs.com, Indeed.com, social media, and search engines (Google Chrome, Google X-ray, advanced Boolean searching strings and niche job boards).
• Using social networking mediums (i.e., LinkedIn groups and other online forums) to promote employment brand messaging that drives traffic to open roles by establishing and promoting positive relationships.
• Utilizing CRM to track day-to-day sourcing activity in the candidate management system.
• Successfully sourcing and attracting passive external talent.
• Leveraging sourcing data in weekly conversations with hiring managers and TA leadership.
• Extensive data mining of various social media to identify candidate profiles.
• Conducting phone screens to pre-qualify qualified candidates and maintaining candidate contact. 

Consultation:

• Attaining a high-level understanding of our business, program, technological and cultural challenges.
• Demonstrating a deep understanding of the external recruiting landscape within their function. 

Assessment and Selection:

• Accurately assessing candidates (via in-person or phone) for cultural, competency and skill fit.
• Quickly synthesizing candidate and hiring manager feedback.
• Routinely pre-closing candidates (early in the process) to ensure high acceptance rates.

 This position’s standard work schedule is a 9/80. The 9/80 schedule allows employees who work a nine-hour day Monday through Thursday to take every other Friday off.

 Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of sourcing and/or full-cycle recruiting experience
• Experience with sourcing technical talent across various engineering disciplines (Systems, Software, Mechanical, Electrical, Aerospace) and non-technical disciplines (business, production, operations, supply chain).
• Previous experience sourcing cleared talent.
• Experience sourcing using LinkedIn Recruiter or other sourcing platforms. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• Previous experience in both agency and corporate recruiting.
• Prior experience sourcing and/or recruiting in Aerospace and Defense.